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4.2 Specific Locations that were mentioned as unsafe for pedestrians The following locations were mentioned during the interviews or public meetings or other outreach efforts. They were mentioned at least once and some of them many times. Manhattan Times Square Herald Square Canal Street 125 th Street 8 th Avenue near the Port Authority Bus Terminal 33 rd Street at Park Avenue The Bronx Grand Concourse At 170 th Street At 183 rd Street Webster Avenue at East Fordham Road Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn Bay Parkway Ocean Parkway Utica Avenue at Eastern Parkway Queens Queens Boulevard Northern Boulevard Hillside Avenue Archer Avenue Staten Island Hylan Boulevard Nassau County Hempstead, particularly near the bus terminal Near Hofstra University Nassau Road Babylon Turnpike Centennial Avenue near Roosevelt Putnam County Routes 9, 164, and 311 Rockland County Route 306 Hasidic neighborhood Main Street in New City New Hempstead Road Suffolk County Route 25 Sunrise Highway Westchester County Central Avenue Route 119 from Tarrytown to White Plains Route 9 in Ossining NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 46
4.4 Existing Infrastructure and Land Use Patterns During the interviews on which this chapter is based, several people spoke of the relationship between land use and transportation, and how it affects transportation safety. Much of this discussion emphasized the role that developers play in the construction of pedestrian facilities or in the lack of pedestrian facilities in growing areas. Developers resist putting in pedestrian facilities. When they do put sidewalks in, they often do not line up with adjacent sidewalks. In some cases they have agreed to put in pedestrian facilities during the approval process, but at completion the developer had not complied. Much of the regional infrastructure was built decades or even longer ago, with little consideration of vehicular-pedestrian conflicts. Given the vast extent of the existing infrastructure, it is difficult and very expensive to retrofit it for pedestrian safety. At skewed intersections where streets are not aligned or one of the streets becomes narrower, crosswalks are often either diagonal or not on the shortest path; many pedestrians choose to cut straight across or jay walk. Poor maintenance of sidewalks or other pedestrian facilities often discourages pedestrians, particularly people with disabilities, from using the facilities. Some sidewalks are in such poor shape that wheelchairs or strollers cannot use them. In winter, snow and ice is not removed, forcing pedestrians to use the streets. Pedestrian signals are often poorly timed. In small towns or low density areas, pedestrian signals may have stopped working or are lacking. In many areas, vehicles exiting expressways need to slow down significantly in order to enter the new environment at an appropriate speed, but other than a sign, nothing about the ramp encourages the slower speed. Although there is typically a stop or yield sign, off-ramps need to be designed to slow vehicles down. Urban areas In New York City and some of the inner suburban cities and villages, there is a large existing infrastructure of streets and sidewalks. In Manhattan in particular, there is very high demand for both vehicular and pedestrian space and no room to expand either without sacrificing space from the other. The location of subway entrances, typically at corners, reduces the available space for pedestrians at the same time that they add to pedestrian volumes. Sidewalk cafes, movable shop signs, telephone booths, street furniture and sidewalk vendors also reduce pedestrian space. In some areas, where the pedestrian volume exceeds the available space, many pedestrians walk in the street or even the traffic lane; this is common along Canal Street in Manhattan. On Eighth Avenue approaching the Port Authority Bus Terminal, pedestrians will take over a whole lane. Members of Transportation Alternatives point out that curbside parking in New York City is under priced, causing people to cruise looking for parking spots. The fact that the curbside parking is filled also leads to double parking, which causes vehicles to swerve to get around them and makes it more difficult for motorists to see pedestrians who cut between the parked NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study 47
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New York Metropolitan Transportatio
Page 3 and 4: 1. Report No. 2. Government Accessi
Page 5 and 6: Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1
Page 7 and 8: Table of Figures 2.1 Ten Year Trend
Page 9 and 10: I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Study Origin an
Page 11 and 12: in the United States; the 2004 data
Page 13 and 14: Table 1.1 Organizations That Were I
Page 15 and 16: II. BACKGROUND ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY
Page 17 and 18: Figure 2.1 Ten Year Trend in Pedest
Page 19 and 20: Figure 2.3 Historic Trend in Annual
Page 21 and 22: than fatality rates.) The most noti
Page 23 and 24: III. ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEDESTRIAN S
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Page 27 and 28: The New York State Metropolitan Pla
Page 29 and 30: getting input from people who have
Page 31 and 32: i. 20% of priority crash locations
Page 33 and 34: located by reference marker (the sm
Page 35 and 36: that the proper signage and other t
Page 37 and 38: and funding has been secured to adv
Page 39 and 40: Westchester County and NYSDOT have
Page 41 and 42: programs in each borough. The NYCDO
Page 43 and 44: IV. PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISSUES IN THE
Page 45 and 46: Drivers: Typical statements about d
Page 47 and 48: • Ability to lift foot high decre
Page 49 and 50: The national data indicates that th
Page 51 and 52: Vendors Vendors set up their carts
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Page 57 and 58: Some sidewalks are poorly designed
Page 59 and 60: pedestrian design. At least one per
Page 61 and 62: Crosswalks need to be more visible.
Page 63 and 64: V COUNTERMEASURES AND STRATEGIES Th
Page 65 and 66: timing and street lighting. New Jer
Page 67 and 68: Providing Sidewalks: Walking-along-
Page 69 and 70: the pedestrian crash rate was signi
Page 71 and 72: Speed management through engineerin
Page 73 and 74: nearby streets. Whereas Bus-pedestr
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Page 77 and 78: Roadway narrowings are used to prov
Page 79 and 80: have experienced a maintenance prob
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Page 85 and 86: Figure 5.17 Split Phase Cycle Sourc
Page 87 and 88: Combined Automatic and Actuated Sig
Page 89 and 90: 5.2.5 Visibility To insure safety,
Page 91 and 92: Pedestrian Crosswalk Signs: There a
Page 93 and 94: also be placed next to the stop lin
Page 95 and 96: Table 5.5 Crash Reduction Factors f
Page 97 and 98: ask them to act as role models for
Page 99 and 100: 5.3.3 Educating Local Officials and
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Page 103 and 104: VI. FUNDING Funding for pedestrian
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York, Projects are chosen by the NY
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NHTSA distributes the Section 402 f
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VII. RECOMMENDATIONS As noted in Ch
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o Safe Routes to School • NYMTC s
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easy to use is residential populati
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REFERENCES American Council of the
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ITE (1998) Design and Safety of Ped
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Parsons Brincherhoff Quade & Dougla
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NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Interview f
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12. Do you have any strategies or t
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Appendix B: PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CONTA
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New York City Department of Transpo
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Suffolk County Department of Public
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Appendix C: TRAFFIC SAFETY BOARD CO
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Appendix D: ON LINE PEDESTRIAN SAFE
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FARS Query System is an interactive
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Education and Enforcement Counterme
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Appendix E: NEW YORK CITY FATATLIES
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Appendix F: Prompt Lists for Pedest
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Pedestrian Safety Prompt List Gener
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pathway provide direct access to wa
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If so, is there a sign that explain
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